Animals: Lakehurst's Tige

Whenever the Los Angeles or the blimps J3, J-4 and ZMC-2 are launched or landed at Lakehurst, N. J., a ground crew of U. S. sailors catches the ship's dangling ropes, holds on hard. Lately the crew's mascot, a nine month old bull pup named Tige, learned to help. He would seize a rope end in his strong young teeth and pull amain.

Last week Tige was holding on to one of the J-3's ropes when the blimp took off on a practice voyage. Tige's jaws were clamped bulldoggedly; he soared aloft. Valiantly, for...

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